Preface
Current Technological Foundation
The many dramatic impacts of the binary algebra (George Boole, 1850s), computer (von Neumann, 1940s), data networks (1950s), information (1980s), the Internet (1990s), and knowledge revolutions (2000s) are now deeply entrenched in the society. Some of the most ingrained after effects left by computers and networks are well in their sixth decade. This decade appears to that of consolidating the effects of the last 60+ years into the age of “Marxist” machines that serve the needs of all human beings rather than those of the intellectually elite, corporate tycoons, and financially secure nations. It is time for machines to turn human (at least humanist) rather than humans turning robotic. In an effort to ...
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